A uSATA external enclosure USB will work: USB uSATA 3.5 Enclosure

[Buy one and Fry's and return it?]

Verify it is 2.5 SATA or 1.8 uSATA (they are different): http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...9&sku=341-4872

Course you might auction the drive off on EBay and buy a new Laptop (from the looks of the prices) after your get your data: Ebay

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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:11:47 -0700
Subject: Re: Rescuing laptop HD
From: phrkonaleash@gmail.com
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Hi,

See now I feel dumb ;) I guess better to ask people who know than fly by the seat of my pants.
The only problem is that I cannot locate a power input that is identical to the one in my desktop (or at all for that matter) on the drive. I will dump an image of it somewhere when I get it (at a friend's house this weekend.)

~Ryan

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Jason <jasons@spatafore.net> wrote:
I did a quick check to make sure I was accurate. uSATA is an SSD drive
according to this article.

http://www.pcper.com/archive.php?s=6&year=2008&month=6

If you look at the connectors, they are the same as SATA.

On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 20:01 -0700, Jason wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 17:15 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > I don't have another laptop to plug this drive (it says on the outside
> > of the drive uSATA ro something like that) into, and what I want to
> > know, is what kind of hardware do I need to plug it into a a standard
> > SATA bay on my desktop so that I can get out the data (which,
> > oopsmybad, is not backed up)
>
> A SATA drive is a SATA drive. Unlike 2.5" IDE drives, which had a
> different connector, all SATA drives have the same connector and you
> should have no problems as long as you have a SATA data and SATA power
> cable.
>
> You should be fine. Pop out the drive and see if it will fit. If the
> connectors fit, I wouldn't be concerned.
>
> Of course, I have to disclaim...use this advice at your own risk.
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